Baku. Vahab Rzayev – APA-Economics. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.4% at 16,417.
The broad-based S&P 500 fell 0.1% to 1,846, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite gained 0.1 at 4,219.
London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ended Thursday down just 0.01 per cent at 6,816 points.
Frankfurt's DAX 30 fell 0.3 per cent to 9,710 points and the CAC 40 in Paris dropped 0.4 per cent to 4,316 points.